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Informationen zum Autor Nikiforos T. Laopodis is a finance professor at the School of Business and Economics’ Finance Department at The American College of Greece. Dr Laopodis is widely published in the areas of finance and economics on topics such as investments, monetary and fiscal policies, and financial econometrics and in highly respected finance journals. Since 1995, he has been, and continues to be, a regular participant in the Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association (US and Int’l) and later in the European Financial Management Association. Zusammenfassung This revised and fully expanded edition continues to incorporate the elements of traditional investments textbooks but goes further in that the material is presented from an intuitive, practical point of view, and the supplementary material included in each chapter lends itself to both class discussion and further reading by students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Investment Basics 1. The Investment Framework 2. The Investment Decision Process and Investment Strategies 3. Fundamentals of Risk and Return Part II: Financial Markets, Intermediaries and Instruments 4. The Global Financial Environment 5. Money and Capital Markets, Instruments and Strategies 6. Investment Bankers and Investment Companies Part III: Portfolio Theory 7. Diversification and Asset Allocation 8. Efficient Diversification and Capital Market Theory 9. Market Efficiency and Behavioral Finance Part IV: Equity Portfolio Management 10. Equity and Fundamental Analysis 11. Equity Valuation and Investment Strategies Part V: Debt Securities 12. Bond Fundamentals and Valuation 13. Bond Portfolio Management and Performance Evaluation Part VI: Derivative Markets and Instruments 14. Option Markets and Valuation Models 15. Futures Markets and Strategies Part VII: Other Topics In Investments 16. Other Investment Topics and Themes in Investment Management
